Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) Any regulations made under the Motor Vehicles Act which relate to commercial passenger vehicles, the use of commercial passenger vehicles as security for loans, or to persons who operate or work on or in relation to commercial passenger vehicles, being regulations which, on the commencement of the Motor Vehicles Amendment Act 1991 , could probably be no longer made under the Motor Vehicles Act , shall:
(a) continue to exist as regulations under this Act; and
(b) be capable of being amended or repealed by regulations made under this Act.
(2) Where a reference in a regulation saved under subsection (1) is to a provision in the Motor Vehicles Act that has been repealed by the Motor Vehicles Amendment Act 1991 , that reference shall be construed, where possible, as a reference to an appropriate or relevant provision in this Act.
(3) An action, prosecution or other proceeding begun under the Motor Vehicles Act as then in force before the commencement of this Act may be continued as if this Act had never commenced, and an action, prosecution or other proceeding in respect of a thing done or omitted to be done under the Motor Vehicles Act as then in force before the commencement of this Act may be brought, taken and prosecuted in the same manner as if this Act had never commenced.
(4) Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, a person had under the Motor Vehicles Act as then in force a licence, certificate or other authority relating to the use, possession or operation of a commercial passenger vehicle, that person is, on the commencement of this Act, authorised to use, possess or operate the commercial passenger vehicle until such time as the licence, certificate or other authority would otherwise have expired under the Motor Vehicles Act .
(5) Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, a person or body corporate had under the Motor Vehicles Act as then in force a public hire car licence, the person or body corporate may be granted a taxi licence on the expiration of the public hire car licence in accordance with subsection (4) notwithstanding that the person or body corporate is not eligible under section 20(1) to be granted the taxi licence, and section 20(2) does not apply to and in relation to such a person or body corporate to whom a taxi licence is granted until the person's or body corporate's accreditation is renewed under this Act.
(6) The Director may, if it is considered administratively expedient for the purposes of the transition of requirements relating to commercial passenger vehicles under the Motor Vehicles Act to the requirements under this Act, extend, on payment of an appropriate fee determined by the Director, the authorisation given under subsection (4) for one further period not exceeding 12 months and may also, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act, take such actions and impose such conditions (including the payment of appropriate fees) as is thought necessary for the purposes of the transitions.